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CHARLES C. HALEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY A.

HAUSSLING AND ADELL A. HALEY, OF SAME PLACE.

BO TTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,078, dated April 23, 1889. I

Application filed December 10, 1888. Serial No. 293,117- (Fo model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. HALEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked. thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to enable bottles supplied with permanently-attached stoppers of a certain class to be washed with greater facility by means of the ordinary washing-machines now in common use; to allow of and to obtain a more perfect cleansing of both the bottle and stopper; to allow of the substitution or replacing of defective parts without much labor or cost; to reduce the danger of opening the bottle when the projecting bail is accidentally struck, and to secure other results and advantages, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth.

The invention consists in the improved bottle-stopper having the arrangements and com binations of parts, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the claim. I

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several fig ures, Figure l is a side elevation of the improved stopperin connection with the bottle,

the upper part'of the said bottle being shown o in of bent wire has been ri 'idl secured to the button by means of solder at one end and provided with a free end, which served only to engage the inner side of the neck or mouth of the bottle to hold the said button in place, the said bail serving to hold the button away from its bearings on the inside of the bottle in the process of emptying and filling the said bottle.

In the improved device the bail and button have a jointed relation to one another, whereby when the stopper is pressed back or into the bottle the said button may turn in its relation to the bail, so as to allow the cleansing brushes or tools of the washing and rinsing or swabbing machines to pass down into the body of the bottle, the bristles or washingsurfaces of the tools passing over the upper surface of the button, so as to perfectly cleanse the same, as they could not were the buttons held rigidly at right angles to the bail.

One method of joining the parts is shown clearly in Fig. 3, in which (1 indicates an eye formed on or secured to the metal portion or body 6 of the button, the method shown being to form an eye or eyelet-wire, as indicated, and cast the body metal around the ends thereof to hold them together.

The body metal is formed to resemble a disk. having a recess, in which is secured a rubber or other suitable washer, f, adapted to engage the inside of the bottle and form an impervious joint therewith in the usual man- The bail d is bent, as indicated more clearly in Fig. 2, the same providing two hooked arms, d d, connected, as'at d, to form a fingerloop, by means of which the bail may be grasped by the finger or by the ordinary hook commonly found on the bottling-bench, to draw the said bail and its connections upward. The connection d also serves to give spring action to the bearings engaging the bottle, as will be understood. The opposite ends of the hooked arms lie laterally adjacent to one another and extend oppositely through By having the spring-arms formed as shown I secure two free ends, which with an evenlydistributed power reduce the lateral pressure on the neck and allow of a more easy and even drawing of the parts into place.

The body of the button may be of metal, of hail-d rubber, or of any other suitable materla Having thus described the invention, What I claim as new is The improved bottle-stopper herein described, combining with the button having an eye, d a Wire bail doubled, as at (1 to form a fin ger-loop, and the hooked arms (1 d, which extend downwardly and pass in opposite direc- 1 5 t-ions through said eye, the extremities of said arms being bent upward at said eye d forming spring-bearings d d to engage the opposite sides of the interior of the neck, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes 20 set forth. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of December, 1888.

CHARLES C. HALEY. \Vitnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, E. L. SHERMAN. 

